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Re: This Is What Really Hides In Taco Bell's "Beef"

Taco Bell's meat filling looks like ground beef before and after cooking, but it has been augmented with fibers and other substances to keep the price low. That's how they can offer tacos for 99 cents—and that's fine: There's absolutely nothing wrong with their processed mixture apart from being gross.

The problem here is that the consumers may believe that this "meat filling" is actually beef while it's not. If it looks like beef, it's labeled as beef, and it's advertised as beef, then it must be beef—except that substance is not beef. It's just "meat filling". That could deceive the public, which is why there is a class action lawsuit in the works. Consumers have the right to easily learn what they are eating before making a decision to eat a taco or not, just like they need to know before buying cloned meat or genetically modified vegetables or products containing corn syrup.The final irony: The USDA says that any food labeled as "meat taco filling" should at least have 40% fresh meat. According to the Alabama law firm, Taco Bell stuff only has 36% meat. Perhaps they should call it Almost Taco Meat Filling.

Fast food is not evil. I still plan to eat chicken soft tacos and bean burritos at Taco Bell. But, consumers have a right to know, EASILY, what they're eating. For instance, that the "meat" you're eating in your taco is only 36% actual "meat." That's how the free market, ideally, should work. Give customers information, and let the customer decide.

But, you can't falsely advertise your product, and promise MEAT when you aren't giving people MEAT.

Re: This Is What Really Hides In Taco Bell's "Beef"

Really. You put oatmeal and sand in your chili? Remind me never to eat at your house.

I read the ingredients and there is no sand and no I don't put oats in my chili. But there are no beans in the mix either...I side it was similar...not identical.

You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Re: This Is What Really Hides In Taco Bell's "Beef"

Silica naturally exists in certain foods like banana's, which contain 13.9 mg per 250 grams. It is especially present in oats and lettuce. So if you are putting oats into the mixture you are going to have silica in it. It is not necessarily sand as in sand at the beach. Yes, it is in the same family...but it is completly different.

Last edited by ksu_aviator; 01-28-11 at 04:24 PM.

You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Re: This Is What Really Hides In Taco Bell's "Beef"

Hmmmm...

Ground beef -vs- chopped beef, the latter I assume is what most people expect they're consuming when they eat a beef filled Taco Bell product. I suppose they have a valid point. Still, what Taco Bell is using really isn't that much different from what any housewife wouldn't mix together to make tacos at home.

Brown your 50-85% reduced fat pound of ground beef, add water and a Lawrey's taco seasoning packet and Vvvvwhalla! Tacos made from ground beef and processed flavor additives. What's so wrong with that?

Fast food is not evil. I still plan to eat chicken soft tacos and bean burritos at Taco Bell. But, consumers have a right to know, EASILY, what they're eating. For instance, that the "meat" you're eating in your taco is only 36% actual "meat." That's how the free market, ideally, should work. Give customers information, and let the customer decide.

But, you can't falsely advertise your product, and promise MEAT when you aren't giving people MEAT.

To the above, I agree. Still, IMO what Taco Bell is serving as "beef" for their tacos really isn't that much different from any of use wouldn't mix up at home on Taco night.

False or misleading advertising? Sure...absolutely! But most of use likely consumer the same "filler" from our kitchen tables every day.